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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Arcadio after town violence erupts?

2. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do when he visits the jail?

3. Who returns home with crude manners and many tattoos?

4. Who proposes to Amaranta?

5. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia do that his intimates tell him not to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Colonel Aureliano Buendia begin to realize?

2. Describe Aureliano Segundo.

3. What is Colonel Aureliano Buendia's final request when he is caught and court martialed?

4. When a messenger arrives from the Liberal Revolutionary Forces, what does Arcadio do?

5. What is Pietro Crespi a master at doing?

6. What makes Jose Arcadio Buendia and Ursula outcasts in their society?

7. When Colonel Aureliano Buendia leaves Macondo, who takes his place? Describe this leader's leadership style.

8. What happens after Aureliano Jose after the rejection of his affections?

9. When Jose Arcadio Buendia becomes obsessed with mechanical animals, what do Aureliano and some townspeople do?

10. The plague of Rebeca spreads across the town - who helps to save the people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Government seems to play a significant role in this novel. How does the government positively affect Macondo? How does the government negatively affect Macondo? Give at least two specific examples of each.

Essay Topic 2

Men and women have vastly different parts to play in this novel. Using characters from each generation as examples, describe the role of men in this novel as well as the roles of women. How do they differ? How are they the same?

Essay Topic 3

Why is the parchment so important for the characters in the book? What makes this parchment something important to the family? What happens when the parchment is finally deciphered? Who is the one who deciphers it? Why is it so important that this character be the one who deciphers the parchment?

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